On Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:49:04 AM UTC-7, Sonny wrote:
I'd like to steam bend some solid cherry panels, approximately 23"H X
30"W, the bend/arc to be perpendicular to the grain and the complete
curve to be 90 degrees.... for making 2 curved cabinet doors at the
corner of the cabinet.

As others have said, glueing up a curve then shaping it to a panel
is more likely to succeed in dry cherry wood.

I've seen some lovely doors done this way, in the Rotunda
at U. of Virginia; Thomas Jefferson made oval rooms inside
the round building, and the doors actually match the wall curvature.
Alas, I don't know the wood in those, or how it was worked.